Skirrid Hill: Awesome Analysis & Activities for A Level (first teaching 2015)
- AQA A A Level
- Eduqas A Level
Comprehensive and well-researched summaries, thought-provoking discussion prompts, commentaries, activities and links to AOs for all 41 poems in the Skirrid Hill collection. Contains all the essentials for exploring the emotional and geographical divides between contrasting themes such as life and death, childhood and adulthood, and England and Wales.
It's concise and detailed, with clear comments on how to address the AOs... the sheer wealth of information available, written in a format that is both helpful for weaker students and challenging for the more able
Nearly 200 pages of content, including 3–4 pages on every one of the poems. Perfectly matched to the new specification and ready to use in class – the only resource you’ll need to teach this powerful collection!
Clear structure featuring:
- Guided analytical tasks for each poem
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- Check understanding and encourage continual analysis – great for independent study
- Ensure students are engaged with the collection – they’ll know the poems inside out!
- Thorough AO-linked commentary providing depth and breadth for every poem
- Original illustrations
- Complete glossary helps students with the need-to-know terms
- Plus: Exam Preparation section ensures students are fully prepared for assessment!
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- Includes practice questions, sample answers and detailed examiner commentary
What do teachers say about this resource? (6766, 6909)
This resource was an absolute lifesaver! It's detailed and comprehensive across the collection with some really interesting points of analysis and detailed context. There is so little out there on Sheers and Skirrid Hill so this was incredibly helpful. I really liked the comparisons between the poems themselves as this helped me further understand what holds the poems together beyond 'Wales'. It's concise and detailed, with clear comments on how to address the AOs. It is incredibly reasonably priced for the sheer wealth of information available, written in a format that is both helpful for weaker students and challenging for the more able.
Keywords
- A level English Literature
- A Level AQA A English Literature (7712)
- Paper 2: Texts in shared contexts
- Modern Times: literature from 1945 to the present day
- A Level Eduqas English Literature (QA720)
- Component 1: Poetry
- A Level Comprehensive Guide
- A Level English Literature Comprehensive Guide
- A Level Activity Pack
- A Level English Literature Activity Pack
- Owen Sheers
- Welsh history
- ‘Mametz Wood’
- ‘The Farrier’
- ‘Inheritance’
- ‘Marking Time’
- ‘Show’
- ‘Valentine’
- ‘Winter Swans’
- ‘Night Windows’
- ‘Keyways’
- ‘Border Country’
- ‘Farther’
- ‘Trees’
- ‘Hedge School’
- ‘Joseph Jones’
- ‘Late Spring’
- ‘The Equation’
- ‘Swallows’
- ‘On Going’
- ‘Y Gaer’
- ‘The Hill Fort’
- ‘Intermission’
- ‘Calendar’
- ‘Flag’
- ‘The Steelworks’
- ‘Song’
- ‘Landmark’
- ‘Happy Accidents’
- ‘Drinking with Hitler’
- ‘Four Movements in the Scale of Two’
- ‘Liable to Floods’
- ‘History’ ‘Amazon’
- ‘Shadow Man’
- ‘Under the Superstition Mountains’
- ‘Service’
- ‘The Fishmonger’
- ‘Stitch in Time’
- ‘L. A. Evening’
- ‘The Singing Men’
- ‘The Wake’
- ‘Skirrid Fawr’
- Poetry